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Does N8 7RB flood?

No property in an EA risk band

No property in N8 7RB appears in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset. That dataset covers one of five flood sources. It is area-level, it covers rivers and the sea only, and it is never proof a place cannot flood — surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately. See the at-risk postcodes in N8 or get the full picture below.

The ground around N8 7RB

The ground here sits at about 31 m above sea level and falls 16 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the south-east, 4.8 m higher.

Shaded relief map of the ground around N87RB, computed from Environment Agency LiDAR. The ground here sits at about 31 m above sea level and falls 16 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the south-east, 4.8 m higher.
Shaded relief of the bare ground within about 400 m of N8 7RB, computed from the Environment Agency's published LiDAR terrain survey. The ring marks the postcode centre, not a property. This shows the shape of the land, not a flood map — it does not include drains, culverts, walls or kerbs, and the official likelihood band above is the authoritative figure. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.
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Inside the full report for N8 7RB

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
N8 7RB
Moderate flood risk — investigate further

Because 109 official warnings since 2006.

··· Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood nearby: No ⚑ Flood defences within 500 m: Yes ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
···
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
None within ~1 km
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around N8 7RB. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near N8 7RB

109
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2008
7
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2026
most recent warning nearby (2026-08-27)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Named storms that brought flooding here

2013-14 UK winter floods (2013, 3 warnings nearby) · Conall (2024, 2 warnings nearby) · Henk (2024, 2 warnings nearby) · Dennis (2020, 1 warnings nearby)

The rivers that matter for N8 7RB

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
Powys Lane Pymmes Brook 2.7 km 2.43 m 2.05 m
Edmonton, Silver Street Pymmes Brook 4.4 km 1.70 m 1.45 m
Hampstead Suburb Mutton Brook 4.5 km 2.39 m 1.99 m
Lea Bridge River Lee 5.2 km 6.10 m 6.52 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Weston Park Cso Tonebridge Brook 1.7 km 0 (2024) 0
Deadmans Bridge Cso Pymmes Brook 2.5 km 35 (2024) 93
Pinkham Way Cso Bounds Green Brook 2.7 km 1 (2024) 2
Markfield Park Cso / Stonebridge Bk River Lee 4.0 km 3 (2024) 4

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

2 mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m — nearest ~15 m (natural high ground). Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the N8 district.